History Quiz

15 questions, easier first and harder toward the end. Pick one answer per question.

1 First President of Malawi:

Bakili Muluzi Hastings Kamuzu Banda Bingu wa Mutharika Joyce Banda

2 Malawi gained independence in:

1961 1963 1964 1966

3 Colonising power in Nyasaland:

France Portugal Germany Britain

4 Body that founded the Blantyre Mission:

London Missionary Soc. Roman Catholic Church Church of Scotland Anglican Church

5 Malawi became a republic in:

1964 1966 1968 1970

6 Leader of the 1915 uprising in Nyasaland:

Kamuzu Banda John Chilembwe Orton Chirwa Levy Mwanawasa

7 Kamuzu Banda's political party:

UDF MCP DPP AFORD

8 Year of Malawi's first multiparty election:

1990 1992 1994 1999

9 First female president of Malawi:

Vera Chirwa Joyce Banda Callista Mutharika Jane Ansah

10 Chewa masked-dance secret society:

Nyau Mbumba Malipenga Ingoma

11 The Cold War roughly ended in:

1975 1989 1995 2000

12 Explorer whose reports drew Europeans to Nyasaland:

Henry Stanley David Livingstone Vasco da Gama Mungo Park

13 Karonga battles (1887–89) were mainly against:

Arab-Swahili slavers Portuguese Germans Boers

14 Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved in:

1953 1960 1963 1965

15 Before returning, Kamuzu Banda practised medicine in:

Ghana Kenya South Africa the United Kingdom

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